Alok Guha

Alok Guha (1706-) was the Darya-Saranga (Naval Secretary) of the Maratha Confederacy from 1730, succeeding his father Gomaji Guha.

Biography
Alok Guha was born in 1706 in Bijapur in the Maratha Confederacy, the son of Gomaji Guha and a member of the Guha clan of the Maratha aristocracy. He became the new Darya-Saranga (Naval Secretary) of the Maratha Confederacy in 1730 after the death of his father, and he took command of the trading fleets in the East Indies.